About the Authors

Yi-Chang Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Chang Liu, I-Hsuan Lin, Wei-Jen Chung

Affiliation Institute of Biopharmaceutical Research, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

I-Hsuan Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Chang Liu, I-Hsuan Lin, Wei-Jen Chung

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei-Jen Chung

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Chang Liu, I-Hsuan Lin, Wei-Jen Chung

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wensi S. Hu

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wailap Victor Ng

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Proteomics Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Yu Lu

Affiliation Proteomics Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Tsung-Yen Huang

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-Wei Shu

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology in Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kwang-Jen Hsiao

Affiliation Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Shih-Feng Tsai

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan

Chuan-Hsiung Chang

cchang@ym.edu.tw (CHC); chlin2@ym.edu.tw (CHL)

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chao-Hsiung Lin

cchang@ym.edu.tw (CHC); chlin2@ym.edu.tw (CHL)

Affiliations Institute of Biopharmaceutical Research, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Proteomics Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research and Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WH WN CYL KJH SFT CHC CHL. Performed the experiments: YCL IHL WJC TYH HWS. Analyzed the data: YCL IHL WJC TYH HWS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YCL IHL WJC TYH HWS. Wrote the paper: IHL CHL.